Sundried Tomato Spelt Ravioli & Pesto Sauce

I lived off ravioli during my vegetarian years. Being in primary school when I decided to become vegetarian, I couldn’t really cook much for myself, and my mother probably wasn’t too keen on cooking separate meals for me every night. So I mostly lived off pre-made frozen vegetarian meals. Like lasagna and ravioli.

I eventually learnt how to cook the lasagna myself in the microwave – I will never forget it – 8 minutes in the microwave. But one night, my mother was out, and there was about 1/4 of the frozen lasagna left for my dinner, and I put it in the microwave for 8 minutes (not thinking I needed to reduce the time for a reduced serving size).

About 5 minutes later, my sister said, “What’s that smell?”. We went into the kitchen and the microwave was on fire! We screamed and didn’t know what to do, what a panic we were in! I was going to throw water on it, but I vaguely remembered that water isn’t good for electrical fires. My sister ran across the road and got our neighbour who came back and extinguished the fire. I called my mother at her friend’s house, she wasn’t too happy that I had ruined the microwave but at least we’d had enough sense to get our neighbour to help…

Needless to say, I don’t own a microwave these days. This experience scarred me for life! I prefer cooking the old fashioned way – over the stove or in the oven.

But anyway, I digress. Ravioli. Right. Finding premade vegan ravioli in Australia seems impossible. I don’t even know if such a thing exists. I’m sure you guys in America and Europe have it, but here it’s either make it yourself, or go without.

I choose to make it myself. It does require a bit of extra fiddly work so it’s not something that ends up on our weekly menus. It’s definitely a meal for special occasions…the perfect Valentine’s Day meal to share with your lover. But with that said, practice makes perfect, and once you master the art of rolling a fine dough you’ll be able to make ravioli from scratch in moments!

Make the dough and roll it out.

Cut it.

Put some filling on top.

Fold it and press the edges with a fork.

Boil for a few minutes.

Blend some sauce.

Serve.

Really, it’s not that difficult :) a vegan ravioli recipe from scratch that only takes about 30 minutes from start to serving? Win!

Comments

Ooooh, I love ravioli! And this looks absolutely excellent! I’m not even sorry about the exclamation marks because this post is so exciting! Except for the microwave part, that’s actually horrible. IT’s surprising how easy it is to live without a microwave though, I haven’t had one for about a year and I rarely miss it.

This post does give me one question though… how easy would it be to change it to a gluten-free recipe? Probably kind of impossible, since it wouldn’t really be proper ravioli anymore. :/

Yes, I definitely don’t miss having a microwave either haha. I’m not entirely sure how well this ravioli would turn out if you used gluten-free flour – I know we can get gluten-free pastry flour here (I think it’s mainly rice flour and tapioca starch?) so if I was to attempt making this gluten-free, that’s probably how I would do it…or even just use rice flour? You will most likely need to adjust the amount of water to get a good dough though. If you end up trying it out, be sure to let me know :)

Will do! At the moment it looks like a rather scary task, so I’m not sure when would I get around to actually doing it. Perhaps it’s like my fear of gluten-free vegan muffins – seems to be super-difficult, but it’s actually not that bad :)

I haven’t seen any gluten-free pastry flours around here, so I guess I’d have to combine something from what I have available. I do have rice flour and tapioca starch though, so that’s an option.

THIS LOOKS DELICIOUS. WITH SUCH HEALTHY INGREDIENTS. i DON’T HAVE A MICROWAVE EITHER – I AGREE WITH YOU I RATHER DO IT THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY. MICROWAVES ARE NOT HEALTHY FOR US ANYWAY – THEY GIVE OF RADIATION WHICH IS DEFINITELY NOT HEALTHY AND THEY DESTROY MANY OF THE NUTRIENTS IN FOOD. hAVE A HEALTHY WEEKEND AND THANK FOR SHARING ON REAL FOOD FRIDAYS.

My goodness this looks wonderful! My daughter and I have just purchased YG a few weeks ago – your recipe fits in perfectly with our newest category Vegetarian/Vegan. I’m excited you have submitted this and hope you will continue to submit!

This looks amazing, and I love that you made your own pasta. Thats so cool, and something I have always wanted to do. It looks delicious, and I love the combination of flavors. This is the kinda meatless monday meal I am talking about. YUM!

This looks so good, it could become our new favorite pasta dish! It’s absolutely perfect for me and my family! Thank you so much for sharing your healthy and delicious Sundried Tomato Spelt Ravioli & Pesto Sauce with us at the Healthy, Happy, Green and Natural Party Blog Hop. I’m pinning and sharing!

This looks delicious! I was laughing at the microwave story though, because my mom put metail in the microwave once and it caught on fire. And then when my brother went to get my dad, he didn’t believe him. I only use the microwave to heat up leftovers. :)

Hahahah oh Michelle, that is classic! I hope the fire didn’t cause too much damage by the time it got put out! And yes, the comment section displays characters in caps lock as the default…I should really change that actually, it can be annoying!

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